DECEMBER 29, 2021
Queens Gazette
Queens Gazette
Queens Gazette
Queens Gazette
Queens Gazette
I'm super excited to be interviewed by the Queens Gazette! Read the Q&A below.
SEPTEMBER 24-25, 2021
Italian American Writers Association
featuring Maria Lisella, Jenn Martelli, Isabella Calisi Wagner, Ron Vazzano, Angelo Zeolla, and with host Peter Marra
The Italian American Writers Association was founded in 1991 to promote Italian American writing by encouraging its writing, reading, publication, distribution, translation, and study. Its members include writers, readers, editors, publishers, agents, translators, teachers, scholars, and indeed all who are interested in the progress of Italian American writing.
Thursday Morning Poets
Featuring Nicollette Barsamian, Isabella Calisi-Wagner, Beth Evans, Melva C. Lewis, Maria Lisella, Luvon Roberson, Megha Sood, Judy Trupin
Strangers until 2021, The Thursday Morning Poets (TMP) first met at a Queens Public Library virtual workshop with Queens Poet Laureate Maria Lisella in January of this year. Enthusiastic about the prompt-based workshop she led, 16 people elected to continue on their own, forming TMP. The weekly meetings are facilitated by a different member each time. TMP is a safe writing space in which members are inspired first by prompts, ideas, and poems and finally each other to produce first drafts of original poetry. TMP members also share calls for submissions and Open Mic opportunities.